Andrew Marshall in The Guardian on endangered Bornean orangutan

Bological anthropologist Andrew Marshall has comments in The Guardian on the "critically endangered" Bornean orangutan

Professor Andrew Marshall comments on thedeclaration of the Bornean orangutan as "critically endangered":

The Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) is now critically endangered according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). This change means that both species of orangutan now face an “extremely high risk of extinction in the wild.”

“This is full acknowledgement of what has been clear for a long time: orangutan conservation is failing,” Andrew Marshall, one of the authors of the assessment, told Mongabay. Regardless of any positive outcomes of past conservation efforts, they have not achieved the only meaningful goal: a stable or increasing population.